The parable of the vineyard and husbandmen. Caesar's right to tribute.
The Sadducees are confuted. The first commandment. The widow's mite.
12:1. And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country.
12:2. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
12:3. Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty.
12:4. And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded in the head and used him reproachfully.
12:5. And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others, of whom some they beat, and others they killed.
12:6. Therefore, having yet one son, most dear to him, he also sent him unto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son.
12:7. But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.
12:8. And laying hold on him, they killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.
12:9. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others.